Birds to See in Curaçao in August
33 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
33 bird species on our list for Curaçao are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper, Barn Swallow, Semipalmated Sandpiper and Common Tern. New this month: Pectoral Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, White-rumped Sandpiper and Sand Martin and 6 more.
Residents
(14)Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(7)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Passage migrants
(9)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Mar–Nov
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Aug–Nov
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Aug–Jan
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly May–Nov
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Regularly May–Jan
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly May–Nov
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Aug–Sep
Black Tern
Chlidonias nigerLC
Regularly Aug
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made